Population of bed bugs reveals mechanisms of resistance
2011 Virginia Tech study in PLoS One on genetic mutations in bedbugs and their growing resistance to control with insecticides.
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Voting in presidential primaries: What we can learn from three decades of exit polling
2008 paper from Northeastern on the U.S. presidential nominating process and the role played by voter judgment on incumbents’ performance and party affiliation.
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Obama, racial prejudice, and the 2008 presidential vote
2011 study in PS: Political Science & Politics on the effect of racial attitudes on the final vote tall for Barack Obama in 2008.
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2011 Medicare Trustees Report
2011 U.S. government report on the state of Medicare funding and the program’s future solvency, including information on its expenditure growth relative to GDP over time
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State of campaign finance policy: Recent developments and issues for Congress
2011 Congressional Research Service report on the campaign finance landscape that is evolving in American politics.
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Research chat: Andrew Revkin on covering and using scholarship
Interview with longtime New York Times reporter and Dot Earth blogger Andrew Revkin
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Final report on the causes of BP’s Macondo Well blowout
2011 final report from the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement on British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon disaster.
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Census Bureau graphic: Recession and median income
2011 Census Bureau report updating figures on American households through 2010, including income, poverty and health.
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Macroeconomic effects of tax changes: Estimates from a new measure of fiscal shocks
2010 study in the American Economic Review on the direct consequences of post-World War II shifts in tax policy and their subsequent fiscal shocks.
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Case study: “Friend or Foe? WikiLeaks and the Guardian”
2011 case study from Columbia University on ethical issues implicated in the relationship between an activist news source and a major news organization.
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